Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Mark Knopfler explaining Guitars

I'll add Joe Bonamassa in as another great guitarist but Knopfler is right there near the top with SRV.

Neal Schon from Journey can flat out play. He is way under rated.

All this guitar talk and no mention of Albert Lee?

G.E. Smith is, to be cliche', one of the most underrated guitarists ever. He's always generally been attached to backing bands like Dylan or Hall & Oates. Super humble guy too. Check it out.

Was really hoping Knopfler would pull out
a garden-shed variety 3 string shovel ..

Dont forget some of the country boys can play...........

I think you guys are being too tough on Cobain. Sure, he wasn't technically proficient but he could come up with simple riffs that absolutely rocked.

I must agree with this - - - - and then someone posted
and must say good luck with such an argument, because there are so many types, and styles, and great guitarists of various sorts - so never will that encompassing claim be settled.

Thanks for the OP. Very oood stuff from a master.

A couple of greats.

Vidovic on a Redgate.

Believe it or not Charo was/is really good. Don Felder is ok too!

Maybe I missed the comments, but did not see anyone say anything rough about Cobain as a guitar player. But, I will. His stuff is like coffee grounds compared to any one of a hundred guitar artists. And, those are not actually riffs in the original sense.

Cobain was a no talent hack. Should’ve used the shotgun sooner.

That guitar really speaks - quite full and vibrant - not a big hall, so can't figure why they used the double Bose setup in that situation. She is a very good and entertaining player, but still lacks the subtlety of phrasing and needed dynamics for a piece like that. Heard her do a Piazzolla and it was flavorful, but rhythmic steadiness absent at times. Seems to leap ahead once in a while where such is not in the vein. In older times the greats were more singular - Segovia, the Romeros, J. Williams as time passed - today there are so many fine classical players - some very young - time will sort them out.

Well he's got one video on YouTube with 1.2 BILLION views. Not too bad for a hack.

As often said, there is no accounting for poor taste. How many such views do the vulgar rapper guys have - and are you impressed by those numbers to the point where you would praise them as well? Cobain had a niche due to the listening preferences of some fans - lots of them - and he was a junkie, and he offed himself - all of which seems to have added to his "mystique" and none of which made him a great guitarist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eex1aqbfP08

Manitas de Plata--- "Little Silver Hands"

A Spanish gypsy Flamenco guitarist.

Danny Gatton was better than all of'em

There's many, many truly really good guitar players that we will never ever hear from. Your waiter in Nashville could be a unreal talented player and just hasn't had the break that he or she needed. Many of the truly greats, Vince Gill, and others have stated that they had great timing and luck. Les Paul himself was a absolute unreal gifted player but he was best known to be the first to develop mult tracking on records along with the solid body electric guitar. The Gibson Les Paul is known to be the most famous "rock" guitar ever but ask a Fender Stratocaster player if that's so...........Guitars are like guns. Lots of different types that make it interesting.

Have a good one!